Medha Bhattacharyya discusses her new translation of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's rarely known collection of meditative essays, Śāntiniketan (Abode of Peace), which looks at his ideas of universality; his socio-cultural location; and his reflections on Buddhism, Vaiṣṇavism, Bāul philosophy, and the Bhagavadgītā, and their contemporary relevance.

[source: Writers and Books website, 2019-Nov-4]